Site Council Meeting

November 8, 2006

Present: Ginger Thompson, Patrice Clark, Bobbie Jaffe-Nash, Cathy Moran, Phyllis Textor, Jane Wynn, Shawn Doan, Steve Globerman, Matt Goldfogel

Absent: Kathleen Nolan,

The minutes were reviewed. Patrice motioned to accept the minutes and Bobbi seconded. Minutes were passed.

Phyllis reported that the site council training will occur next fall when the new handbook is completed.

PTSA report: Bobbi Jaffe-Nash

• The non-fundraiser is raking in the money. About $3500 in contributions have been collected so far. The money goes into the general budget to help pay for the Mariner Memo, the student directory for members, teacher grants. The non-fundraisers have been a humorous way to raise money without the need for committee work.
• Additional non-fundraisers include the Non-Fun-Run and the Non-Wrapping Paper drive.
• Janice Condrun will be giving a presentation. It is expected to be dynamic. Information will be coming.
• Membership is currently about 320 people, the largest high school membership in the district. Last year ended with about 351 members.
• Continuing to work on linking Haggens card with Sehome to get school bucks for certain items purchased.

ASB report: Matt Goldfogel

• Sports:
• x-country – girls team took 1^st in state with a 1^st place boy finisher
• Swimming – 1^st in district beating out Anacortes
• Honor Society is about double last year
• Matt and Adam Rigger are going to state for tennis
• Student Government
• Vetoed the 4^th Amendment to the Constitution, which would restructure the 2^nd period representatives and add a House and Senate.
• Student government is tight on money. Money comes from fundraising, loss of money due to loss of vending machines.
• Current fundraiser is collecting and turning in old cell phones.
• Graffiti on campus from some BHS students. Graffiti was discriminatory in nature. Students were apprehended from info found on My Space.
• A committee was created to address Diversity issues. A meeting involving all 3 high schools occurred. A march to the courthouse has occurred. WWU Center for Student Democracy has partnered with students and will be holding a meeting to discuss how to get your voice heard within a democracy.
• There is a choir concert tonight in the Little Theatre.

Principal’s Report: Phyllis Textor

• Patrice and Phyllis went on a learning walk. If interested in going on a walk e-mail Phyllis. It takes about 1½ hours. The first 10 minutes is to preface what to look for. The rest of the time is spent in classrooms.
• Patrice shared that she found the walk fun and inspiring to see how teachers worked with students in different ways depending on what they were teaching. The focus is on what is working – if students were engaged with the teacher and learning.
• District committees from the last meeting have been formed. Julie Kratzig and Maria Griggs are on the graduation requirement committee. Elementary boundary and time task force not quite yet formed. If interested in serving on a committee let Phyllis know.
• 1^st lock down drill has occurred. Worked with students/teachers to be quiet and not draw attention during a lock down. Most took lock down very seriously. Police gave advice and pointers on what to work on.
• Next piece of drilling will be with police to develop staging area for student pick-up and how to deal with students entering campus during a lock down.
• All schools in WA. are being mapped with Rapid Responder. This will allow Police dept. and Fire dept. access via computer to the specs of the building, where hazardous materials are in building, etc. during a crisis.
• Next drill will occur during student break to train students where if evacuation occurs during break or lunch.
• 2^nd e-news letter goes out today. Electronic newsletter goes out about once a month. Must sign-up on website to receive e-news.
• GI-Joe’s is giving each schools athletic department $2000.
• Monthly parent meetings will start in January.
• Lisa Brosseau has resigned from Site Council. Todd Leita will be joining Site Council.

2007 Site Council Projects brainstorming:

• Create a parent hotline where parents could call and leave a question that would be answered by a parent.
• Invite parents that teachers/staff might identify to a Parent forum night.
• Phyllis could make personal invitations to parents to come to Parent meetings offering refreshments.
• The empty nest parent might be a good candidate to mentor parents.
• Add FAQ’s to the Mariner memo and student handbook.
• Re-instate a student-to-student peer-mentoring program like “Ignite”. Could be done through 9^th grade teaming. There is a need to develop more personalization between students to make early connections for new students to Sehome.
• Patrice and Bobbi will work on a list of FAQ’s for each grade level.
• The Site Council will work on developing a Welcoming committee.
• Bobbi challenged each teacher to make at least one phone call per week to connect with a parent.

Future topics: discuss class size – freshman classes are too large.